RCA/ICA striving for cost coverage and profitability with NINA

Intercontainer Austria to be integrated into Rail Cargo Austria AG’s Intermodal business unit before mid-2011

 

Rail Cargo Austria (RCA) and Intercontainer Austria (ICA) are taking action to reorganise their national intermodal transport services for unaccompanied transport boxes. Named NINA “Nationales Intermodales Netzwerk Austria“, the two enterprises launch an overnight terminal-terminal product on 4 April 2011. They will deploy their own locomotives and shuttle sets.

According to ICA’s managing director Mag. Wilhelm Patzner the new model approach cuts production costs by up to 30 per cent. Nevertheless Rail Cargo Austria has to change its prices to achieve cost coverage. The adjustments in the national terminal-terminal traffic are ranging from 2 to 20 per cent , given an 80 per cent utilisation of the trains, according to the route. “As for the operation of connection trains, prices are doubling in some severe cases“, Franz Dirnbauer, manager of the strategic business unit Intermodal Rail Cargo Austria, discloses to the Austrian transport magazine Österreichische Verkehrszeitung.

Intercontainer Austria is loosing its standard of an independent company in the first half of the year. The enterprise, whose 85 employees moved around 410.000 TEU in the year 2010 and generated a turnover at EUR 90 million, advances to one of five Profit Centres (RoLa, UKV, Mobiler, Terminals and ICA) of Rail Cargo Austria’s Intermodal business unit.

Quelle: LogEastics
Plattform: www.logistik-express.com

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